Imagined nations
Subtitle: reflections on media in Canadian fiction
By: David Williams.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Mass media in literature.; Politics and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.; National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.; Roman canadien -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.; Médias dans la littérature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fictions of the nation; title: Novel and nation; title: The mode of communication; title: Orality and print : from clan to nation in No great mischief; title: Doubling and irony : print nationalists vs. radio confederates in The colony of unrequited dreams; title: Writing and revolution : the prisoner of print in Prochain épisode; title: The shock of film and the transformation of place : a case in point in The butterfly plague; title: Film-nations vs. print-nations : the politics of metonymy in The Englishman's boy; title: Film and print versions of The English patient : Wuthering Heights in the global village; title: Boundary breakdowns : portents of the digital revolution in The English patient; title: Border wars : doing battle with the transnationals in Neuromancer.